Thatcher Demko

He's gonna have to bring that effort on a consistent basis.

What is-- Speaking of the conversation we had with Henrik yesterday, what did you make of the news, I guess it was, that he dropped that they are hopeful that Thatcher Demko could be rejoining the team by Christmas?

Yeah.

I mean, I, I thought it was, I thought it was interesting because, like, a few days prior and there, there was no, no timeline.

The Canucks lineup from practice yesterday and the lines that they're expected to go with, keeping in mind that last time we checked, Jake DeBrusk traveling with the team, but lower body injury.

Philip Helde and Thatcher Demko on injured reserve.

Rick.

All right, uh, Ryan, get her up.

... on waivers.

Well, he comes over on waivers.

I mean, bottom line is, is, I mean, this is a Thatcher Demko issue, right?

Mm-hmm.

How did that go in?

But yeah, no, listen, Thatcher Demko, big question mark.

Henry City, I mean, the management's been very careful talking about him and had...

Hip surgery, at least one last winter, we think might have had a second.

Remember, they had the pie thing last year.

So day-to-day for DeBrusque, Philip Chittle on the IR and Thatcher Demko listed as out.

And for the Edmonton Oilers, Alec Regula out, Frederick Anderson out, Matthias Janmark out, Jason Dickinson out, Matt Savoy out.

Trevor, I have to ask you, are

I think the biggest challenge for them, it goes right back to the goaltending.

Thatcher Demko, he's hurt again, unavailable.

And the only consistent thing about Thatcher in the last number of years, the only is that you know he's not going to be available.

He's consistently unavailable.

And

then Demko, you heard Henrik.

What did he say? Christmas.

Hopefully before Christmas.

Can you look it up real quick? I think it was only Lankanen.

Canucks shutouts.

I think it was Demko.

I think we only had one.

Looked for him to pair with Philip Roenick most nights.

And until Thatcher Demko gets back sometime in late December, it's the all-Finnish goaltending duo of Lankanen and newcomer Levi Maralainen.

He'll probably play sometime this week because they have four games this week.

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They won't go away.

And this is just going to be what you sign up for on Thatcher Demko, who, by the way, has three more years left at $8.5 million per.

Yeah, none of us want that to be the case where these lingering injuries from surgeries end up costing him his career at just 30 years old.

But when you look at the...